Kansas Preservation Volume 33, Number 3 REAL PLACES. REAL STORIES. A Coffey Break See story on page 16. Historical Society Kansas Preservation Conference The 2012 Kansas Preservation Conference is planned in partnership with the Newsletter of the Cultural Resources Division Regional Energy Sustainability Summit and Fair January 25-28, 2012, in Wichita. Kansas Historical Society This event is the perfect opportunity to experience two great conferences with Volume 33, Number 3 a single registration. This combined conference has something for everyone! Contents • Kansas Historic Preservation Office staff will present introductory 1 information on the Kansas Historic Resources Inventory (KHRI), listing National Register Nominations a property to the National Register of Historic Places, and funding programs 8 for historic properties. Hispanic Heritage in Kansas City • Tour the historic Orpheum Theater and attend screenings of two 16 2011 Kansas Archeology Training Program documentaries. • Learn about new technology meant to improve energy efficiency in 19 Blue Earth Kansa Indian Village existing buildings. 22 • Network with individuals, organizations, and companies that share your KAA Fall Fling passion for preserving historic resources while providing for a sustainable 24 future. National Conservation Award • Learn how to effectively winterize your home. • Experience a showcase of products and services from vendors working with energy efficiency, environmental compliance, sustainability, historic KANSAS PRESERVATION preservation, and LEED design. The conference will be held at the Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview and the Published quarterly by the Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Avenue, adjacent Century II Convention Center in Wichita. Topeka KS 66615-1099. Additional conference, hotel, and registration information is available at Please send change of address information greenwichita.org. to the above address or email [email protected]. Third class postage paid at Topeka, Kansas. Governor Sam Brownback Jennie Chinn, State Historic Preservation Officer Patrick Zollner, Deputy SHPO, Editor Linda Kunkle Park, Graphic Designer Partial funding for this publication is provided by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Department of Interior. This program receives federal funds from the National Park Service. Regulations of the U.S. Department of the Interior strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination in departmental federally assisted programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, or handicap. Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in any program activity or facility operated by a recipient of federal assistance should write to: Office of Equal Opportunity, National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW, Washington DC 20240. ON THE COVER: Eisenhower Veteran’s Kansas Preservation Conference will be held at Administration, Leavenworth, was among new the Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview, Wichita. National Historic Landmarks that were recently announced, Building 19, pictured. Inset: The chapel is another building in the complex. ©2011 Site of 1958 Dockum Drug Store Sit-In Among National Register Nominations At its regular quarterly meeting held at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka on Saturday, November 19, the Historic Sites Board of Review voted to list four properties in the Register of Historic Kansas Places and to forward 14 nominations to the office of the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., to be evaluated by its professional staff. If the staff concurs with the board’s findings, the properties will be included in the National Register. One of the nominated properties is the union National Bank building in Wichita, site of the historic 1958 Dockum Drug Store sit-in. by Sarah Martin National Register Coordinator, Kansas Historical Society Union National Bank – 104 S Broadway, Wichita, Sedgwick County Built in 1926, the 14-story union National Bank building is a classic example of a tall, concrete-framed, Chicago-style office building. The building was financed by the Edith Rockefeller mcCormick Trust of Chicago, designed by K. m. Vitzthum and J. J. Burns Architects, and constructed by Wichita builder George Siedhoff. It took just eight months to complete the building at a cost of $200,000, and upon its completion it was the tallest building in Kansas. The building is particularly significant as the location of a student-led sit-in in 1958 at the Dockum Drug Store on the first floor. With support from the local NAACP chapter and leaders such as Chester Lewis and Vivian Parks, a group of young African Americans peacefully protested the drug store’s discriminatory policies for three weeks. Their efforts convinced the Dockum Company and the associated Rexall Corporation to change their policies in stores throughout Kansas. Although rarely recognized, this protest inspired other sit-ins in Oklahoma City and across the country. The building is nominated for its architectural significance and as part of the “African American Resources of Wichita” multiple property nomination for its association with the 1958 sit-in. Right, Union National Bank, Sedgwick County. VOLumE 33 | 3 | 2011 1 Left to right, Horace Mann Elementary School, Wyandotte County; Kansas City, Kansas High School Gymnasium & Laboratory; Winfield National Bank, Cowley County. Horace Mann Elementary School – 824 State Avenue, the building for good when the new Wyandotte High Kansas City, Wyandotte County School opened in 1937. School district architects William The Horace mann Elementary School was designed by W. Rose and David B. Peterson designed the gym and lab Kansas City, Kansas School District architect William building in the Renaissance Revival style. It is nominated W. Rose in a restrained Classical Revival style. Built in 1909, for its local significance in the area of education. the three-story, symmetrical masonry building features classrooms arranged around a central stair tower and Winfield National Bank – 901 Main Street, Winfield, specialized rooms for manual training and assembly. Cowley County Elements of the Classical Revival style include engaged By the early 1890s, there were four bank buildings located pilasters, multi-light windows, a rusticated stone base, and at the intersection of Ninth and main in Winfield. The classical cornice elements. Rose’s successor, architect Joseph Winfield National Bank built a two-story brick building at Radotinsky, designed a 1939 addition to the east end of the the southwest corner of this prominent intersection in building, which blends well with the massing and materials 1879 and significantly remodeled the building in 1916. of the original building. The building functioned as an However, by 1923, the bank had contracted with the elementary school through 1939 when it was converted American Fixture Company to construct a new building. to use by the Kansas City Junior College, which occupied Just as the 1879 brick building had reflected the bank’s the building until 1968. It is nominated for its local investment in the community with its construction of one significance in the areas of architecture and education. of the community’s early brick structures, the new 1923 Classical Revival-style building reflected financial prosperity Kansas City, Kansas High School Gymnasium & and stability. The bank survived the Great Depression, but Laboratory – 1017 N 9th Street, Kansas City, later merged with First National Bank in 1945 and moved Wyandotte County across the street. The building’s Classical Revival details The Kansas City, Kansas High School Gymnasium and include a formal, symmetrical façade and a smooth stone Laboratory building was built in 1923 as an education- exterior. It has a temple front with paired pilasters framing related structure intended to support educational activities. the recessed entrance and a tall and prominent parapet. The related high school sat across the street, but a fire The building is nominated for its local significance in the destroyed the school in 1934. A tunnel beneath 9th Street area of commerce and architecture. had connected the two buildings. The three-story gym and lab building featured specialized classrooms, such as ATSF Motive Power Building – 1001 NE Atchison, Topeka, chemistry and physics laboratories and a home economics Shawnee County department, and indoor athletic facilities that included a The motive Power Building was constructed in 1910 and spacious two-story gymnasium, swimming pool, and expanded in 1930 to serve as offices to the adjacent Santa locker rooms with showers. After the fire, a Junior College Fe Railroad shops. The turn of the century represented a program moved into the gym and lab building and would new era for Santa Fe when Topeka citizens supported the later expand into the nearby Horace mann Elementary relocation of the shops to the Oakland neighborhood in School and remained there until 1968. The high school left 1902. When completed, the investment was nearly 2 KANSAS Preservation Left to right, ATSF Motive Power Building, Shawnee County; Church of the Holy Name, Shawnee County; Sedgwick Downtown Historic Dis- trict, Sedgwick, Harvey County. $400,000 and employed 3,000 men and the shops covered Name was completed in 1925 and reflects